New Scientist Technology - Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites

New Scientist Technology - Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites:
"The NSA recently changed ARDA's name to the Disruptive Technology Office. The DTO's interest in online social network analysis echoes the Pentagon's controversial post 9/11 Total Information Awareness (TIA) initiative. That programme, designed to collect, track and analyse online data trails, was suspended after a public furore over privacy in 2002. But elements of the TIA were incorporated into the Pentagon's classified programme in the September 2003 Defense Appropriations Act."

good thing I didn't put the anarchist's cookbook into librarything...